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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the volta of "The Windhover"?
(a) Between lines 11 and 12.
(b) Between lines 4 and 5.
(c) Between lines 12 and 13.
(d) Between lines 8 and 9.

2. What is a "chevalier" (line 11)?
(a) A horse.
(b) A falconer.
(c) A bird.
(d) A knight.

3. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Apostrophe.
(b) Personification.
(c) Verbal irony.
(d) Hyperbole.

4. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "blue-bleak embers, ah my dear/ Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Euphemism.

5. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?
(a) The air.
(b) Daylight.
(c) The dawn.
(d) Flight.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

2. What techniques are evident in the phrase "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

3. Which word is enjambed at the end of line 1 and the beginning of line 2?

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?

5. What is the common name of the titular bird?

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